When Weight Matters

10/01/2026

https://conscienhealth.org/2026/01/09/the-onslaught-of-telehealth-weight-loss-and-obesity-care/

Have you noticed the onslaught of advertising for telehealth weight loss and obesity care? Here are some thoughts on how to sort it out.

05/01/2026

In Obesity Science & Practice, James Kite et al make it clear that researchers and clinicians in cannot be neutral about and . They can either perpetuate it or challenge it.
https://conscienhealth.org/2026/01/05/making-a-choice-perpetuate-or-challenge-obesity-stigma/

16/12/2025

Criminals are moving in on the opportunity for bogus . Why? Health systems conspire to deny access to safe and effective medicines for the sake of their own bottom lines. Money talks and patients suffer all around.
HT: The Times and The Sunday Times
https://conscienhealth.org/2025/12/profiteering-and-the-criminal-trade-in-bogus-obesity-medicines/

11/12/2025

Our friend Ximena Ramos Salas has a guest post on ConscienHealth today that you must not miss. All about the need for clarity about the bright line between and . https://conscienhealth.org/2025/12/a-bright-line-between-health-promotion-and-obesity-prevention/

11/12/2025

This is well worth reading :

Eating More Calories Increases Weight (In Some People – Sometimes – Maybe) Friday, February 18, 2011 Simple but Completely Wrong Depiction of Energy Balance According to the laws of physics when [calories in] exceed [calories out] people gain weight. Unfortunately, when you actually deal with pe...

10/12/2025

06/12/2025

Weight bias is a social justice and human rights issue — and despite decades of research, it remains deeply entrenched across healthcare, workplaces, education, policy, and daily life.

The 2024 International Weight Bias Summit brought together 33 global experts, clinicians, organizational leaders, and individuals with lived experience to identify what needs to happen next to reduce weight stigma in meaningful, system-level ways.

Six key research priorities emerged:
1. Consequences of weight bias & stigma
2. Conceptual & methodological clarity
3. Diversity in sampling, cultures & settings
4. Interventions
5. Policy
6. Implementation science

And three major barriers continue to hold the field back:
• Misconceptions and lack of recognition of weight bias as a legitimate issue
• Limited funding
• Working in silos rather than in coordinated, global collaboration

The message was clear: weight bias isn’t just harmful — it is preventable. But progress requires international collaboration, stronger evidence, inclusive research, and policies that protect people from discrimination.

We’re grateful to see this work moving forward. Now, the challenge is turning these priorities into action.

16/11/2025

Forgive us, but we are not buying hype. Food is not medicine. Food is life. Good food is essential for good health. But it is not a substitute for medicine. A discerning look at data behind recent headlines.
New study in JAMA.
https://conscienhealth.org/2025/11/really-food-is-medicine/

13/11/2025

Would you believe that obesity stigma “permeates” medical education and thus, healthcare? Dr Kofi Essel brings this out, with a call for change, in a new study with medical students at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Kudos!
https://conscienhealth.org/2025/11/stigmatizing-obesity-in-medical-schools/

12/11/2025

06/11/2025

https://conscienhealth.org/2025/10/a-rigorous-validation-of-food-noise-measurement/

With a new and rigorous validation of the RAID-FN scale, we now have yet another tool for measurement of food noise.

04/11/2025

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